Cardiology News and Events
Pitt/HVI Investigators publish largest study yet linking severity of invasively measured pulmonary hypertension to outcomes in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)
Heart failure is one of the largest public health problems. One type of heart failure, known as heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), is the most common type yet there are no specific therapies, with now multiple negative clinical trials...
Pitt, UPMC Plan $200 Million Immunotherapy Center, World-Class Innovation Hub in Bloomfield
The University of Pittsburgh and UPMC are partnering to create a UPMC Immune Transplant and Therapy Center (ITTC), which will be based in a world-class innovation hub to be developed in Bloomfield. UPMC has made an initial $200 million, three-year funding...
Dr. Teekakirikul is lead author on expert opinion featured on the ACC website
Dr. Polakit Teekakirikul, a cardiology fellow in the Heart & Vascular Institute, is lead author on an expert opinion article featured on the American College of Cardiology education website. "Mitral valve derangement is increasingly recognized as a...
American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Taps Prem Soman MD, PhD, as Its 2018 President
Prem Soman, MD, PhD, who directs nuclear cardiology in the Vascular Medicine Institute, has been named President of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) for 2018. "I have unbound optimism for the future of the field and the organization,” Dr....
Pitt Researchers Show Importance of Continued Surveillance for Pulmonary Hypertension after Aortic Valve Replacement
In a study published this month in the journal Heart, a team of Pitt researchers performed serial echocardiograms in a cohort of 407 patients that underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement at UPMC between July 2011 and January 2016. Prior work has...
Northwestern Cardiovascular Young Investigators’ Forum 2017
The Division of Cardiology was well-represented last week at the prestigious Northwestern Cardiovascular Young Investigators' Forum. Three presentations hailed from University of Pittsburgh physicians: Cardiology fellow Polakit Teekakirikul, MD won 2nd...
Pitt Researchers Show Potential and Limitations of Working with Big Data in Annals of Internal Medicine
A team of Pitt and UPMC investigators used diagnosis codes from administrative data to identify a large cohort of patients with heart failure. In this study, all hospital encounters with heart failure between 2008 and 2015 were assigned an ICD-9 heart...
Lung Transplant Can Be Performed Safely in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
A team of UPMC researchers found that patients with coronary disease can safely undergo lung transplantation, according to a peer-reviewed article in Clinical Transplantation. Of 656 lung transplant recipients in the study, 324 had documented coronary...
VMI Researchers Uncover Molecular Origins of Pulmonary Hypertension to Help Speed Treatment
VMI investigators Elena Goncharova, PhD, and Stephen Chan, MD, PhD, study how pulmonary hypertension develops in order to design better therapeutic interventions to prevent, regress, or cure this devastating cardiopulmonary disease. During the past year,...
Endowed Chair in Amyloidosis and Heart Failure Will Drive New Research Program in VMI
The Pittsburgh Foundation and the University of Pittsburgh have agreed to fund the Richard S. Caliguiri Endowed Chair in Amyloidosis and Heart Failure. The endowment will allow the VMI to recruit a distinguished amyloidosis investigator who will lead basic...
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